Buying Guide

Doug’s superb Triumph Trophy Doug Webb has an absolutely stunning Triumph. When first you see it, you could easily dismiss it as a show bike from a chrome plater’s, the whole thing shining from its polished alloy engine to the plated hubs and frame. Then you realise that it’s been ridden to the show, rally…

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Norton Navigator "There’s a Lotta Torque about Norton” – so went the company’s advertising slogan in the early Seventies, immortalised by the photograph taken at the Ascot Park Flat Track in 1972… Big-muscled parallel twins are the bikes Norton is best remembered for – a tradition continued by the new models trickling from the Donington…

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Suzuki T500 Focus in on a Kawasaki Z1 or a Honda 750/4 and you pretty much know what you are likely to get; 1970s superbikes with all the hype, cost, alleged kudos, etc. What you also get are the inevitable rivet-counters who come as part of the ownership experience. These perverse individuals will almost certainly…

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Unusual looking Suzuki Stinger It’s 1966, you are the Suzuki Motorcycle Company and everything in the world is wonderful. You are riding high on Grand Prix successes and your bikes are winning renown worldwide. In fact, in motorcycling terms, the world is your oyster, due in no small part to the meteoric accomplishments of your…

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BMW R27, the final shaft drive single After 80 years of flat twins, it's easy to forget that the famous spinning propeller badge has also been attached to plenty of machines with a single, vertical cylinder. In fact, BMW's first ever two-wheeler, released after WWI, when the company was forbidden from making any more aeroplanes…

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Honda CX500, loved and loathed in equal manner Say what you like about Honda, but it does things its own way and generally gets the end result pretty close to perfect. Occasionally it’s the first iterations of a bike that go a little awry, maybe when some senior middle manager allows newly qualified numpty engineers…

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